Re: Building a new application based on gnumeric

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 12:34:24PM +0200, Victor Morilla wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I wan't to build a free application to solve financial
> problems and I would find very interesting to make use
> of the calc engine of gnumeric.
>  
> My ideal API would let me build new cell objetcs (not
> gui objects) to store values or functions, modify
> them, read it's value and associate callbacks to be
> invoked when a change in a cell happens.
>  
> Is it possible ? Is gnumeric's GUI isolated from it's
> engine calc ? Is there any documentation related ?

The ui and core are as distinct as we can make them but we have not
had alot of testing to validate that.  It is possible to run without
an X display (eg our ssconvert application).  

As to the rest of your proposed design ... I'm not clear why you
would want a new Cell object.  The existing versions should be
sufficient for what you've described.